05150nam 2200733z 450 991014573400332120231212193850.01-281-31095-697866113109500-470-77619-60-470-77704-4(CKB)1000000000415768(EBL)350853(OCoLC)214281258(SSID)ssj0000114779(PQKBManifestationID)11117258(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114779(PQKBWorkID)10125737(PQKB)11585702(MiAaPQ)EBC350853(MiAaPQ)EBC4956757(Au-PeEL)EBL4956757(CaONFJC)MIL131095(OCoLC)1027203538(EXLCZ)99100000000041576820040519d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA brief history of death /Douglas J. Davies1st ed.Malden, Mass.Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (204 p.)880-03Blackwell brief histories of religion1-4051-0183-0 1-4051-0182-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-179) and index.A Brief History of Death; Contents; List of plates (plates fall between pp. 88-89); Preface; 1 Journey Beyond; Gilgamesh; Adam and Eve; Death, Sin and Atonement; Resurrection-Transcendence; Release-Transcendence; Self-Transcendence; Hope and Faith; To Be or Not To Be; Traditional Futures; The Uneasy Species; Death Our Future; Autobiographical History of Death; Methods of Approach; Words Against Death; Myth Again; 2 Parting's Sweet Sorrow; Relationships, Death and Destiny; Family Bonds; Hell, Life and Work; Secular Ethics and Loss; Freud and Bowlby; Grief-Stages; Fixing the UnfixableHelplessnessAberbach and Charisma; World Religions; Identity and Religions; Identity's Demise and Death; Adulthood-Childhood, Maturity and Death of Parents; Moral-Somatic Links; Spiritualism; Departure; 3 Removing the Dead; Souls; Status and Destiny; Ritual Change; Resurrection; Secular Trends; Changing Times; Default Religion; From Respect to Dignity; Death-Style and Belief; Cremated Remains; Space, Cryogenics and Computers; 4 Ecology, Death and Hope; Criminals, Heretics, Bodies and Belief; Dying at Home; Hospice; Symbolic Bodies; American Ways of Death; Ecology; Hope Springs Eternal; ForestPositive and Negative DustEthics and Spirituality at Large; Death's Paradigm Shift; Ecological Immortality; 5 Art, Literature and Music; Variety; Bible; Dante; Milton; Secular Strains; Art; Portraying the Dead; Religious Fusion; Hope; 6 Places of Memory; Myth; The Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Locating Hope: the Dynamics of Memorial Sites; Place and Hope; How to Speak of the Dead?; Location 1: Graveyard and Cemetery; Hope1: Eternal, Eschatological Form of Identity; Location 2: Cremation and Remains; Hope 2: Internal, the Retrospective Fulfilment of Identity; Location 3: Woodland BurialHope 3: Natural, the Ecological Fulfilment of IdentityMemorial Texts; The National Memorial Arboretum; Lifestyle - Death-Style; 7 Fear of Death; A Mythical Form; Hinduism, Buddhism; Christianity; Albert Schweitzer and C. S. Lewis; Essential Fear; Plague; Modern Devastations; Philosophical Fears; Psychology and Fear of Death; Picasso; Fears Real and Imagined; Contemporary Fears; Imaginative Fears; Fear Abolished; 8 Purposeful and Useless Death; Power of Death; Warfare; Genocide; Violence at Heart; Disasters; Baby-Death; Suicide - Euthanasia; Offending Deaths; Illness and DeathThe Future of DeathChristian Eternal Life; Death's Margins; Age and Death; Hopeless Non-Places; 2020 Time and Vision; The World's Death; Bibliography; IndexThe act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary enormously and shed a fascinating light on the cultures of which they are a part. In this brief and lively history, Douglas Davies - internationally acknowledged as one of the leading experts in this field - tackles some of the most significant aspects of death and weaves them into a compelling story about our changing attitudes to dying. Offers a fascinating examination of this subject which is of enduring interest in every culture in the world Considers the profound influence death has had on subjects ranging from phBlackwell brief histories of religion.880-04/$1DeathSocial aspects880-05/$1DeathReligious aspects880-06/$1DeathPsychological aspects880-07/$1Death in artDeathSocial aspects.DeathReligious aspects.DeathPsychological aspects.Death in art291.23306.9Davies Douglas James863121MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910145734003321A brief history of death3569926UNINA